The impulse is to solely blame the city of Oakland for the Ghost Ship horror. The cause of the fire hasn’t been determined yet, but we know that the artist colony has been on the city’s radar for a while. The warehouse wasn’t zoned for residential use, nor licensed to be a nightclub, but that it was doing both was no secret.

House and Senate negotiators have reached a deal that stops the Pentagon from demanding repayment of enlistment bonuses paid to Guard soldiers unless it can prove that they knew or should have known they weren’t eligible for the money.

California voters approved Proposition 64 on Tuesday, legalizing marijuana for recreational use. The state is likely to be a model for other states on recreational and medical weed, and could force the federal government to remove it from the list of dangerous Schedule 1 drugs. The only question remaining: Is California ready for this?

Voters by the millions surprised pollsters and pundits in choosing an angry, insulting real estate huckster who – if elected – will have to appear before a judge in a fraud case weeks before he ever takes the oath of office. Those who were predicting Clinton’s victory as late as Tuesday morning got it wrong – even if Trump’s lead doesn’t hold up.

His statement that he will keep us “in suspense” over accepting his increasingly likely defeat could be nothing more than a cry for attention. But those who hang on Trump’s every threatening word might not make the distinction.